Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, I love the way it looks.

The bag is a Rivendell Banana Bag from when they were having their bags made by Duluth. Bigbossman calls it my "steamer trunk," but it lets me carry plenty of spare tubes, tools, CO2 cartridges, extra Cytomax powder (old pill bottles work great for carrying it so you can reload on the road), one of those road-rash first aid kits, sextant, surveying tools, spare rear wheel . . . . okay, those last three aren't quite for real, but you get the idea.